LZO Professional data compression library

LZO Professional is an enhanced version of the OpenSource LZO GPL library.

LZO Professional incorporates some of our stunning new technologies we have silently developed over the last years, including the new Ternary Partioning Scheme and the revolutionary Data To Code Transformations (D2CT).

LZO Professional is fully source and binary compatible with LZO GPL. Of course, the compressed data is fully compatible as well.

LZO Professional improves in all aspects over the LZO GPL edition:

• the compression levels for generating pre-compressed data will achieve a significantly improved compression ratio
• the decompressors - although blindingly fast right now - are still significantly faster (sometimes even 100% faster), and this without using any assembly language
• the fast compression algorithms are both faster and achieve a better compression ratio

LZO Professional will be available for licensing to interested parties as a binary-only library. Official support and prebuilt versions include all major workstation, desktop and embedded architectures, including Alpha, AMD64, ARM, HPPA, i386, Itanium (IA64), m68k, MIPS, MIPS64, POWERPC, POWERPC64, S390, S390X, SH3, SH4, SPARC, SPARC64 and XSCALE. Finetuned CPU versions for each of these architectures will be available as well.

LZO Professional is currently undergoing final pre-release cycles and is scheduled for sometime 2008. Detailed and high-quality performance testing results will be made available.

In the meantime - just to whet your appetite - please try and evaluate the OpenSource LZO GPL library. Until the release of LZO Professional it actually remains the fastest data compression library around...